NEW YORK (AP) – Convicted child killer Joel Steinberg has a job as a television producer waiting when he’s released from prison next summer after serving 17 years, his attorney said Monday.
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Joel Steinberg in court (1989 photo)
Steinberg will work for “New York Confidential,” an interview show on a local cable station, attorney Darnay Hoffman said.
“He has contacts in prison,” Hoffman said, explaining that Steinberg, a disbarred lawyer, knows some of the state’s most notorious criminals. “He knows how to go into a prison and get a story.”
Steinberg, 62, is completing an 8-to-25-year prison term for manslaughter in the death of his illegally adopted daughter, Lisa, and is expected to be released next June.
In 1987, Steinberg fatally struck 6-year-old Lisa, the girl he had taken as a days-old infant from an unwed teenager. He was supposed to arrange an adoption, but instead took the baby home to his live-in companion, Hedda Nussbaum.
Steinberg left the unconscious child while he went out. Nussbaum stayed home with the first-grader but did nothing all night. An ambulance was called the next morning. The child died three days later.
09/22/03 17:39 EDT
Personally, I hope someone blows this motherfuckers head off. There are only a few things that really enrage me, but hurting a child is most definately one of them. I wonder if the scumbags that hired him will be able to go home and look at their children tonight and tell them how much they love them.